Justice in the not-so-distance future seems like a cruel joke to John Gavin’s disbelieving business man when he’s tried and wrongly convicted of a crime by a bank of computers. But his nightmare doesn’t really begin until he hears the sentence...

Enthralled by its mysterious contents, farmer Charlie Hill buys a strange jar from a carnival sideshow to impress his family and friends back home. The object soon casts its hallucinatory spell over the entire town until some want to make it their own.